The Friends of Josiah Smith Tavern have remained on task during the holidays! We put out a request for restaurant proposals in the fall and had flood of submissions. The week before Thanksgiving we used the beautiful Reading Room at the Arts and Innovation Center to interview and view presentations by several outstanding candidates.
Our board selected Boston Urban Hospitality, owned by Weston resident Brian Piccini! Brian has a stellar reputation in the culinary world and his restaurants have become the anchors of their communities. You may have already enjoyed one of his signature establishments: Deuxave in Back Bay, dbar in Dorchester or Boston Chops in Downtown Crossing and the South End.
To learn more, please attend the presentation by the Friends of the Josiah Smith Tavern and Brian Piccini, at the Weston Select Board Zoom meeting on Tuesday, January 9th. It is on the agenda for 8 pm.
The Weston Community League hosted a Friendsgiving in November. It was the first time the Ballroom was used for its original intent in decades! The lights were aglow and decorations spectacular. Many in attendance clearly enjoyed putting on their finest and bringing their best dishes to share. The food was overflowing and festivities lasted into the night. My husband, driving by on his way home from work, looked up from the road and seeing all the second floor windows lit, said “it looked like Fezziwig’s party from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.” Let’s hope this was the first of many.
And this in from Pam Fox, President of the Weston Historical Society :
We just finished moving our file cabinets, document boxes, and books to Rooms 103 and 104, which we plan to use as a reading room and place for our volunteer work on Tuesday mornings. Rooms 101 and 102 are going to be used for exhibits. For now, we are leaving the Jones family exhibit up, as we don’t have the manpower to do the move plus a new exhibit.
Michael Cooper, who is building our bookshelves, will be finishing up. Michael constructed the shelves as a volunteer, with Weston Historical Society paying for materials. They had to be custom made because there are so many vents, windows, pipes, etc. to avoid.
There is still a lot of work to do, so no timetable for having the JST rooms open for our regular work hours or events.